Installing Crouton and Kali on a Chromebook

Crouton is short for the Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment. The below instruction will allow you to install two separate OSs on your Chromebook and allow for switching in between them (AND they will have a shared folder, downloads, to move data back and forth.)

Kali is the successor to backtrack and if you don’t know what that is, well, perhaps this page isn’t for you, but I will guide you to where you can read more: http://www.kali.org/

Follow these steps to install crouton and kali on a chromebook.
Save everything you stored locally into your Google Drive.
From the desktop, press
Escape Refresh and Power
Press
Control D
don’t press anything.
Just wait, it will beep in two beep bursts, twice.

It will reboot and beep.
Go through set up, choosing your wlan and log in to your google account.
Once done, visit
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
and download this file http://goo.gl/fd3zc

Now access the terminal by pressing Control Alt t
type
shell
and press enter

type
sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -r kali -t kde -n kali

Credit to http://grephaxs.com/chromebook-install-kali-with-crouton/ on the kali Linux bit

Once install is complete, type
sudo startkde

You can now switch between each OS by pressing Control Alt Shift and the arrow keys above the 1-2 and 2-3.
Photos below are taken 1 minute apart.

kali linux with kde kinda sucks though, and it doesn’t include all the cool tools (read: metasploit) that kali is known for as the successor to backtrack. But it is a starting point. Once I find an ARM package to install metasploit, I’ll post that too.